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Word: potatoe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes I pass notes in class. And every once in a while there's a mashed potato and M&M food fight in the dining hall. I still get "psyched" to be asked to dances by guys who are shorter than I am and I constantly punctuate my sentences with "whatever!" Discontent over bra size is an all-too-frequent topic of discussion among my girlfriends. The mall is one of my favorite escapes. The last movie I saw was Adam Sandler's Waterboy, an adolescent masterpiece. Madonna's "Immaculate Collection" resides permanently in my Walkman. The lives and hairstyles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oh My God! My Life's Right Out of a Teen Magazine! | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...more recent information obtained from other sources, TIME estimates the value of the Frito-Lay aid package at more than $10 million. And that is in addition to $104.7 million in industrial-development revenue bonds issued by the city of Jonesboro to build and equip the potato-chip plant. The other incentives include the 140-acre plant site, a rail spur, road improvements, a construction grant, tax credits for new employees and a 20% discount on sewer bills for the next 15 years. That sewage-treatment plant, by the way, cost $7 million and is large enough to accommodate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: States At War | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

ARKANSAS Ever Try to Drink a Potato Chip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: States At War | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...World Series and the Couch Potato is in the zone. This time, he's going to play within himself. It's a long series, but anything can happen in seven games, so he's just going to take it one game at a time. But before the first pitch, there's couch time and, God willing, it will all work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Old Potato Game | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

Over the years I have watched "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on a regular basis. Like many Americans, I have been entertained by her interviews with everyone from Michael Jordan to LeAnn Rimes to Meryl Streep. I've watched Oprah make potato salad with Patti Labelle, dance with Tina Turner and Gloria Estefan, and sing with Elton John. And I'll admit that on certain occasions--when a family is finally reunited or when a particularly homely homemaker is given the makeover of her dreams--I have been touched. Maybe even inspired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Down With the Queen | 10/7/1998 | See Source »

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